and the school district police chief pete arredondo told dispatchers that they didn t have the firepower to confront the gunman. but at that point there were 11 officers, two with rifles at the school. all of those officers are trained in an active shooter situation. and from the very beginning, everyone the ones that didn t have the ballistic shields, they should have just gone in. that is what their protocol suggests. children were left in a room scared to death, calling 911 and yet no one went in. let s bring in law enforcement analyst jonathan wackrow, former secret service agent to president obama. i want to get your reaction to the new images of officers standing in the school hallway with rifles and ballistic shields, just 19 minutes after the gunman entered. their protocol was to rush and take out that threat and that didn t happen. what is your sense of what happened there? listen, it is actually inexcusable that ever since this incident almost every single thi
by giuliani and the former president. what happened to their lives. the former president using ruby s name 18 times on one call. they never did anything but count the votes. do you know how it feels to have the president of the united states to target you? jonathan karl standing by tonight. also breaking tonight, the scathing new details revealed after the uvalde school shooting. authorities calling the response a failure, saying armed officers inside the school could have stopped the gunman three minutes after it began. they were waiting to unlock a classroom door, authorities say, that wasn t even locked. mireya villarreal in texas. the passenger blplane catchg on fire shortly after landing in miami. what we re learning. late word on capitol hill tonight. an agreement on the bipartisan gun safety deal. when is the vote? rachel scott with late reporting. the war in ukraine and tonight, reports of an american killed while fighting in ukraine. james longman is ther
americans a break. but tonight, lawmakers, including many democrats with serious reservations. cecilia vega at the white house. tonight, the new images, the moments that passenger plane landed in miami. the landing gear failing. the plane catching on fire and tonight, images from inside the plane. and how old was that plane? sitting in a new mexico desert for years, then brought back into service. gio benitez covers aviation. the dramatic rescue in ukraine. a u.s. nuclear scientist escaping from russian-controlled mariupol, hiding in that city for nearly four months. james longman from ukraine tonight. the devastating earthquake in afghanistan. more than 1,000 people killed. the 5.9 leveling villages. maggie rulli reporting tonight. after the school shooting in uvalde, the schumermarket shooting in buffalo, news tonight on that bipartisan gun safety deal. will there be enough republicans in the senate to get this through? and tonight, republican leaders in the house a
disastrous showing the biggest spike in consumer prices in over 40 years that the fed felt the need to move fast here to take a page out of the playbook of alan greenspan and paul volker with a very big interest rate increase, and they signaled that more aggressive steps are to come because that official said they are, quote, strongly committed to getting inflation back down to 2%. and given that it s nowhere near 2% right now, that does imply more big rate increases to come. as far as why this is happening, i think it s important to think about the economy as almost like a car on a highway, and the fed is the driver. when it needs to speed the car up, it will cut interest rates to stimulate demand. right now we have the opposite situation. it s going dangerously fast, and so the fed needs to slow things down. it s actually slamming the brakes on the economy. the problem here, victor, for the fed is if they don t do enough inflation can go out of control. if they do too much,
i m brianna keilar with john berman this morning. we begin with major news just in, president biden will officially be making a controversial trip to saudi arabia. what was really an open secret is now being confirmed by the white house. the middle east trip next month will include visits to israel as well as the west bank. the controversy surrounds what biden said as a candidate, he vowed it punish the kingdom and make the saudi crown prince a pariah for the assassination of journalist jamal khashoggi. arlette saenz live at the white house with this official announcement, arlette. what are they saying? reporter: well, john, those comments from president biden appear to be in the rear view mirror as he is now preparing to travel to saudi arabia next month. the white house saying this will be part of a broader trip to the middle east, spanning from july 13th to july 16th, starting with those stops in israel and the palestinian west bank. the president will then travel on t